Sightings Archive

Sunday 23rd April 2017

• Edale: Swallow - 6+ - In usual nesting sites in Lady Booth farm buildings ; Dunnock - 1 - Lady Booth
• Fatty Boyns Ponds: Linnet - 1pr ; Chiffchaff - 2 - inc singing male ; Pheasant - 1 - crowing ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Little Grebe - 1 ; Gadwall - 1pr ; Mallard - 1 - drake ; Blackcap - 2 - inc singing male ; Long-tailed Tit - 2 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Common Buzzard - 2 - soaring high over adjacent fields ; Goldcrest - 1pr ; Skylark - 03-Apr - singing over adjacent fields
• Firsby Res: Gadwall - 2 - Pair. ; Coot - 2 ; Moorhen - 1 ; Grey Heron - 1 - Fishing in shallows. ; Pied Wagtail - 2 - In sluice. ; 319 - 1 - Circling low ; Kestrel - 2 - M + F hunting. ; Whitethroat - 1 - Singing ; Blackcap - 3 ; Willow Warbler - 5 ; Chiffchaff - 4 ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - Reeled briefly twice. ; Willow Tit - 1 - Calling
• Five Weirs Walk: Sand Martin - 55-60 - 10+ behind Holiday Inn Express with nesting sites, 15+ Mill Weir Walk,30+ between Stevenson Rd and Newhall Road with nesting sites ; Sand Martin - 3 - pair at nesting site with would be intruder ; Sand Martin - 1 - with ring on right leg ; Sand Martin - 1 - collecting twigs from ground, ringed ; Swallow - 13 ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - pair harassed by m pied wagtail ; Blackcap - 4 - singing ; Mallard - 2+ - incl. 1 f + 6 chicks and 1 f + 9 chicks ; Moorhen - 2+ - incl pair with 3 chicks on nest near East Coast Rd Bridge
• Fulwood: Brambling - 2 - m and f at feeders
• Hangingwater: 319 - 1 - mobbed by crow as it spiralled. Jay alarming at same time
• Iccles: Bullfinch - 2 - Pair, roundabout 06.45
• Longshaw: Redstart - 1 - singing male ; Mandarin - 3 - on pond
• Malin Bridge: 319 - 2 - circling together over bottom end of Wood Lane.
• Padley Gorge: Pied Flycatcher - 5+ - 4+ singing males & female with nesting material ; Redstart - 1 - singing male ; Grey Wagtail - 2 - pair
• R Don, Aldwarke: Chiffchaff - 3 - singing males ; Blackcap - 1 - singing male ; Kingfisher - 1 ; Greenfinch - 1 - singing male ; Mallard - 1pr
• R Don, Thrybergh Banks: Coot - 1 ; Mallard - 2prs ; Tufted Duck - 21
• Redmires Middle Res: Oystercatcher - 1
• Redmires Res: Pink-footed Goose - 1 - with local Greylags ; Willow Warbler - 36 ; Redstart - 2 ; Common Sandpiper - 4 ; Dunlin - 1 ; Little Ringed Plover - 1 ; Crossbill - 1 - male
• Rotherham; private site: Cetti's Warbler - 1 - singing male
• Royds Clough: Fieldfare - 2 - near Corker Lane.
• Silver Wood: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling on top level of Pingle Lane tip ; Whitethroat - 3 - singing in hedgerow to north and west of woods ; Reed Warbler - 1 - railway line pond
• Silverwood Lagoon: Reed Warbler - 1 - singing ; Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - reeling
• Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 4 ; Grey Heron - 1 - past n ; Mute Swan - 52 ; Gadwall - 1 - m ; 320 - 2 - mf ; Tufted Duck - 17 - 12m5f ; Blackcap - 8 - sing. ; Whitethroat - 2 - sing ; Reed Warbler - 1 - sing ; Lesser Whitethroat - 1 - sing ; Willow Warbler - 11 - sing ; Chiffchaff - 7 - sing ; Scaup - 1 - m now coming to bread
• Thrybergh Tip: Chiffchaff - 14 - inc 10 singing males & 1 courting pair ; Pheasant - 3 - crowing ; Willow Warbler - 4 - singing males ; Linnet - 3 ; Song Thrush - 2 - singing males ; Mute Swan - 7 - 2 on flash; 2 SW @ 0630hrs; 3 W @ 0809hrs ; Blackcap - 14 - inc 12 singing males ; Bullfinch - 4 - 3m (1 singing); 1f ; Moorhen - 4 ; Great Crested Grebe - 1pr - displaying ; Grey Heron - 1 ; Canada Goose - 7 - 2prs + 1; 2 flew E ; Coot - 11 ; Gadwall - 11 - 4prs + 3m; several prospecting birds disturbed from dense vegetation up to 200m from water ; Gadwall - 11 - 4prs + 3m; several prospecting birds disturbed from dense vegetation up to 200m from water ; Reed Warbler - 3 - singing males ; Greylag Goose - 3prs ; Mallard - 5 - 1pr; 2m, 1f